Nick Hubble
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The Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 2026: Part Two (opens the original)
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The first part of this shortlist review showed how fantasy novels have provided a fictional medium for exploring some of the big structural political issues of 2025—questions of empire, kingship, authority, nation, and history. However, these are not the only social institutions and processes affecting our individual and collective agency. More specific features of our present-day world—such as social relationships in the neoliberal workplace, governed as it is by data-led performance management
The Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 2026: Part One (opens the original)
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In her recent critical study Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre, Joy Sanchez-Taylor notes that the success of Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy—the first volume of which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016—played a significant role in collapsing a distinction between SF and fantasy that had hitherto operated like a fortified border, maintaining the cultural distinction afforded to a certain kind of hard SF. [1] The fact that we find ourselves with a majority-fantasy Hugo
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